2016

CRRC, ARISC and American Councils are pleased to announce the first talk of the Fall 2016 WiP series: “Post-Soviet Conspiracy Theories” by Scott Radnitz, University of Washington.
Internet use is on the rise worldwide, and while internet penetration is increasing the world over, in some countries still relatively small shares of the population use it. While only about a third of the population of Georgia reported using…
Direct observation of polling stations is the best method available to ensure the accuracy of the vote, however, election observers cannot be everywhere all the time. Given this fact, the field of election forensics, a subfield of political science, has…
In order to help monitor the fidelity of the October 2016 parliamentary election results, CRRC-Georgia will carry out quantitative analysis of election-related statistics using methods from the field of election forensics within the auspices of the Detecting Election Fraud through…
On August 19, 11:00, in “Rooms Hotel” Tbilisi, CRRC-Georgia hosted a press conference to present the findings of the “Making Votes Count: Pre-analysis Report on Electoral Statistics” for the Detecting Election Fraud through Data Analysis (DEFDA) project, funded through Democracy…
According to existing estimates, the stock of internal migrants is much larger than the stock of international migrantsworldwide. In Georgia, however, internal migration is largely overlooked and there is very little data available on the number and distribution of internal…
Analysis of survey findings from the last few years, presented in the first part of this blog post, shows that public support for democracy is declining in Georgia. Since 2012, the share of the population who would prefer democracy over…
CRRC-Georgia’s report The Judicial System in Georgia: Views of Legal Professionals was published on 11 July, 2016. The report details the results of a baseline study for the USAID-funded project Promoting Rule of Law in Georgia (PROLoG) implemented by East-West Management Institute (EWMI).…